title: DDBJ dealing with mass data produced by the second generation sequencer.
abstract: DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) collected and released 2 368 110 entries or 1 415 106 598 bases in the period from July 2007 to June 2008. The releases in this period include genome scale data of Bombyx mori, Oryzas latipes, Drosophila and Lotus japonicus. In addition, from this year we collected and released trace archive data in collaboration with National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The first release contains those of O. latipes and bacterial meta genomes in human gut. To cope with the current progress of sequencing technology, we also accepted and released more than 100 million of short reads of parasitic protozoa and their hosts that were produced by using a Solexa sequencer.
authors.affiliation: Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Yata, Mishima 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Kazuho
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeo
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukuchi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gojobori
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tateno
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000639:trends*